Archived posts, July 2003

CMS, standards and semantics

A few years ago, web designers and developers nearly always were the ones who filled their client’s sites with content….

Centering with CSS

Back in the old days, if you wanted to center your whole (fixed size) page both horizontally and vertically in…

  • July 30, 2003
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Fun with forms

Most people working with the web need to create HTML forms from time to time. Some of us have to…

Don’t BuyMusic from us

Some of you may know that BuyMusic recently launched an online music store that is somewhat similar to Apple’s iTunes…

More dropshadows

I was browsing the entries at the CSS Zen Garden and was inspired by an entry called Friendly Beaches, which…

  • July 28, 2003
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Dropshadows

Hmm… looks like maybe I should start a “How to do it with CSS”-section on this site. The other day…

  • July 28, 2003
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Rounded corners

I spent some time exploring different ways of creating a box with rounded corners. After checking out how other people…

  • July 22, 2003
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Using the right tool for the right job

After reading Julie Albertson’s Still not wild for Flash, it seems she is of the same opinion as I am…

  • July 22, 2003
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More thoughts on the death of Netscape

Much has been written about last week’s very strange move by AOL. Killing Netscape is something I just can’t see…

  • July 22, 2003
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Interviews worth reading

AppleMatters interviews Jeffrey Zeldman. Do yourself a favour and stop reading after the interview. The comments section that follows is…

  • July 22, 2003
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More CSS designs

Yesterday i mentioned Hicksdesign as an example of a kind of layout that I personally am no big fan of,…

  • July 18, 2003
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Cool things to do with CSS by the end of the decade

Seamus Leahy has made a demo of a menu bar that uses some nice CSS tricks. Too bad (but not…

  • July 18, 2003
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Intelligent browser recommendations

Via adot’s notblog* and Rasterweb I found a page at the University of Washington with a nice description of why…

  • July 18, 2003
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Validate your validation

For the last couple of years I’ve been advocating the benefits of validating your HTML and CSS. The result has…

  • July 17, 2003
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CSS Golf

The Open Championship is the official site of the British Open golf competition that kicked off today. All coded in…

  • July 17, 2003
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Netscape murdered

I have been known to say that ”Netscape 4 must die”. I still believe the web would be a better…

  • July 17, 2003
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Building Accessible Websites

Accessibility expert Joe Clark has now made his entire book Building Accessible Websites available online. For your own good, read…

  • July 17, 2003
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Old Skool Look, New Skool Code

Hicksdesign has a design that reminds me of what web sites often look like when a designer makes all the…

  • July 17, 2003
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Summer cleaning

It’s been two weeks since my last entry, so I have plenty of stuff to write about now. John Gruber…

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